The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22
PRETTY MEN.


1Ae1r Scarcity In This World and the
Reason for it.
While the ''late unpieasantness" was in
progress the General Convention Of the
Episcopal Church met at Philadelphia It
chanced that one evening Bishop Clark, Of
Rhode Island, one of the handsomest and
most eloq uent of prelates, preached the SER
mon in old st. Andrews Church, and Bishop
Williams, Of Connecticut, now the presiding
bishop of his church, read the service. The
two prelates were New England men and had
been chums for many years: As they walked
sion Of the services they overlook two aged
cfones who had been at St. Andrews and
had evidently taken stock Of both preacher
and Sermon. Their comments were dis
dnctly audible, and they were criticising the
preacher: Amt he the goodest man r. said
man - replied the other. It was too much
for the auditors. Bishop Williams nudged
his brother Of Rhode Island in the ribs, and
the latter broke into laugh which 30 startled
the critics that they made haste to turn down
aside street and vanish. Yet they had shown
their appreciation Of good looks in bishop
and had proved that even at fourscore years
thewoman of the period scans with critical
eye the face and form Of the man she chances
70 meet.
American women are deservedly distin-
"
point about our bellies Is that their beauty d
OF 90 many and 20 varied kinds, so that one
type perpetually stands out In lovely con-
trast to the other. There is nothing monot-
0nous or wearisome about Il as in the swarthy
d.ushsr .a q ths s hs ds,hysd .ns Spanish
Scandinavian. Ours i mixed race, in which
the blood Of English, French, Spanish,
Saxon, Norman and Dane are mingled with
almost every other nationality under the sun.
A pretty woman in our country does not con-
slider herself a. anything uncommon. She
knows there are hundreds Of others who have
equally strong claims to beauty, and 30 she 10
content with the admiration she excites and
the love she wins.
But it is different with the men. It is not
often that . really handsome man Is seen.
There are wholesome, stalwart, good-looking
eci0ns Of the American stock presentable
enough in the drawing-room or ON horse
back-thOugh, for the most part, the repre-
sentatives OF our rich and w0uld-be aristo-
cratic families are undersized weaklings-but
rarity. The consequence Is that where there
10 man whom society would call handsome
and the schoolgirls style "a pretty man" he
y apt TO be altogether too conscious of his
distinction and ndiculously conceited. Wo-
men, fatter him and feed his vanity, for .
eyes unto the end Of time. In nine cases out
Of ten his head becomes emptied Of every
thing but self-conceit and vacuity, and he
naturally becomes 20 arrogant and ill-man-
nered aSto be insuherable Then follows Q
reaction. He 10 dubbed 0 coxcomb or Q
puppy, and feminine beauty shakes it, head
ct him and proclaims that he 10 'in love with
himself and without rival"
The man who 10 merely handsome 10 to be
pitied. He never attains any eminence be-
yond that which his physical attractions
bring him. Like the flower Of the field he
eprinQ up for . day, and like the flower of
the neld he has his day and dies. A barbers
block would DO - much good - he, for his
one fatal GIT Of beauty has been destructive
70 his manhood. Better to have less Of
beauty and moro Of wit-less Of style and
more Of grit. The woman who finds this out
win be much more apt to get good hus-
band than the girl who looks merely to the
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be Is also the "goodest.6 ''''''
The portrait Of Lord Byron BY D'Orsay, In
March, 1923, ct Genoa, gives 8 wonderfully
handsome profle New q his isos Il l. tie
beet Hkenels ever taken Of the post. Shelley
had spiritually handsome fAce. Sir Robert
Peal vas exceedingly handsome. The late
Vice President Breckenridge was also very
handsome, and 20 ives the late poet, essayist
and border chronicler, Judge Meek, Of Ala
bams. The merely pretty man has more
femininity than masculinity. The law of
creation is masculine, having within itself
feminine law which Is an exception to the
rule. The males are created under the gen.
eral rule, the females under the exception,
and, therefore, they are equity productions
Of . finer order. Pretty men come very near
bdng equites.-Ntn Ievk Asrexsy.